grg pr

Egyptian

Etymology

grg (“to set up, to found”) +‎ pr (“house, household”).

Pronunciation

Verb
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 compound

  1. to establish a house (+ ḥr: on (a foundation)) [since the Middle Kingdom]
  2. to found a household [since the Middle Kingdom]
  3. (in particular) to get married [since the Middle Kingdom]

References
  • “grg (pr) (lemma ID 168130)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 512.8
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 186.13–186.14
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 291
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